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How (Not) to Understand What Mormons Believe

By Joanna Brooks

…irst clicked into marginal Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger’s website Top 10 Craziest Mormon Beliefs. And that’s just what Fred Karger wanted. Karger first took aim at Mormons during and after California’s bitter Proposition 8 campaign. He used the internet to document the extent of LDS involvement in the Yes on 8 campaign, as well as to warn against potential Mormon involvement in other state LGBT equality battles. But his new site h…

The ‘Spiritual Warfare’ Worldview of Trump’s Conspiracy Doctor is Part of a Transnational Movement

By André Gagné

…and based in Lagos, Nigeria. In the biographical note about DKO on the MFM website, his ministry is said to be “heavily influenced by the work of the late Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola,” founder of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), and that DKO’s father had also been a pastor with the CAC. The CAC was created in 1941 after the expansion of the “Aladura” (meaning, “praying people”) movement through a revival in the 1930s. The CAC is now the larg…

Channeling T.S. Eliot, Ross Douthat Fears The Loss of Taboo

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…sucked into a faux controversy involving two no-name idiots with a radical website taking on four pre-pubescent, fictitious cartoon characters from South Park, Colorado. I’m going to follow that sage advice and leave the South Park controversy out of it. Rather than defend the myriad ways Islam is tolerant, rational, and not as iconoclastic as most people believe (see KARAMAH’s excellent example here), I want to come back to Douthat’s underlying p…

Bishops Cite Flawed ‘Gay Parenting’ Study in Prop. 8 Brief

By Peter Montgomery

…same-sex couples, right? But that’s not what the Regnerus study studied. A website set up by the Witherspoon Institute, which funded the study, says “although it would have been helpful” to do that, it wasn’t “feasible.” What Regnerus did study was “adult children of parents who have, or have had, same-sex relationships.” And he compared those—including children of divorced or single parents—with children raised by a married mom and dad. Regnerus…

Why ‘Do You Believe in God?’ Is at the Heart of Our Religious Problem

By Michael Jerryson

…relevant to each individual). I learned it from another Pedestrian in Wisconsin and I met one in Thailand. At one time there was a website on it, but it was taken down….

Bulgaria and Orthodox Church Cancellation of Louvre Exhibit is Classic Authoritarian Move

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ed down on this idea in a statement posted on the Institute of Art Studies website claiming that the influence was “almost nonexistent” and took place on “a purely decorative level.” Mutafov’s position on the issue of Islamic influence on Christian art during the Ottoman period is far from a universal one among experts. Of course, the utter unwillingness of government officials, churchmen, and the scholars involved to engage with this legitimate a…

Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups

By Peter Laarman

…and comprehensive immigration reform and announcing the creation of a new website (www.faithandimmigration.org) addressing reform from a faith perspective. Wallis himself claims to have no opinion in respect to Leahy’s measure, which is good. But the strong negative reaction of the crucial Catholic bishops suggests that same-sex love must remain The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, lest immigration reform now founder again after years of strugg…

“Papers Please”: The Legal Battle Over Church Sex-Abuse Files

By Omar Shamout

…Catholic Church. A database of the Boy Scout files can be found on Clark’s website. While he and Boucher have been involved in cases against a wide variety of religious and nonprofit organizations, Clark said only the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts “have in any way had their documents systematically exposed to the public.” The more centralized an institution is, the greater amount of liability its top leaders face when a documented coverup sur…

Will Rand Paul Break the Religious Outreach Mold?

By Sarah Posner

…enne of the anti-marriage equality movement, writing for The Pulse 2016, a website run by the conservative advocacy group American Principles in Action. In her “Indiana Crisis Report Card,” Gallagher castigated Paul for being “unavailable for comment when the Indiana brouhaha broke,” adding that his call for a Great Awakening to a group of pastors was a wholly inadequate substitute for real talk on religious freedom. As Steve Benen pointed out whe…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…t designer—and the most logical candidate is the God of the Bible.” On the website of the Ligonier Ministries, who sell copies of these lectures, Meyer is described as having “spent 20 years researching cosmology, biology and metaphysics to determine the existence of a creator God.” Meyer is also the co-founder and director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, the Seattle think tank that powers so much of the anti-evo…